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I gave up on this a quarter of the way through, mainly because the writing was so amteurish. I had the feeling it was written by an adolescent youth who'd had no training in writing novels. Lots of telling, boring dialogue, shallow characterisation, etc.
Why anyone would give it 4 or 5 stars defeats me.

While a solid and engaging read, it does have a flaw that irritated me considerably: the highly repetitive use of 'practiced'. For example, it was used to qualify 'ease', 'efficiency', 'strokes', 'precision', 'movements', 'eye', with some of these, such as 'ease', occurring numerous times.

While a solid and engaging story, it has one fault that continued to disturb me: the highly repetitive use of 'practiced'. it was applied to 'ease', 'efficiency', 'stealth', 'precision', 'steps', and more, multiple times.

Should have started at the end of Ch 2; the beginning was just scene setting.

The Unity 6 features for which I bought the book are covered in 26 pages as an addendum out of 462. The earlier chapters discuss material covered in many other Unity books, of which I have a few. I shall return it for a refund. I'm very disappointed.

ARC

Needs a good proofreader. 2nd book better than 1st. 3rd has slow start.

The first chapter was a bit wearing. I'm putting it on hold for the time being.

Stalled.

It's not often I become so immersed in a book that it affects my moods, especially towards the end of this volume, when it becomes disturbingly dramatic. This is masterful storytelling.
On to Volume 3 now for the climax of this saga.

"She could have cared less that her mother could no longer afford a full retinue of servants."

Henderson, Ella Walker. Jundi (p. 15).Kindle Edition.

Outside of America that would have been written "couldn't have cared less", which is much more logical.

"Bang bang bang bang", "blam blam",... I thought I was reading a comic.

I tried to finish it, but gave up.

"Bang bang bang bang", "blam blam"... I thought I was reading a comic.

Didn't finish.